“A team led by ex-Winamp-er Rob Lord today released a preview edition of Songbird,
a desktop media player that offers an open source alternative to
services like Apple’s iTunes and the Windows Media Player. Instead of
connecting to one locked store full of DRMmed goods, it can connect to
any and all available music (and video) on the internet.

Code brains behind the project include people who helped build
Winamp, Muse, Yahoo’s “Y! Music Engine” media player, and developers
from Mozilla Foundation. Initial release is for Windows only, with
editions for other OSes to follow in the coming weeks.

Built on the same platform as Firefox, Songbird acts like a
specialized web browser for music. It sees the online world through
MP3-colored glasses — it looks at an archive of public domain sound
files or a music store’s catalog, and displays available media for you.”

It will definitely crash though. So, interesting, but. Would be cool if it worked as a player for embedded content too on a web page. Not sure if it does though. here’s a download mirror, and another. Some early reviews on this digg thread.